Another update to user profiles: Activities. You may know this from social networks like facebook, already - now it's on rathershort, too. Several actions are tracked and displayed on profiles of users. We will soon integrate this into more functions on the platform and plan to link it to social network sites in future.
Whoo: The whole world of festivals on one map. You can zoom in move around while festival locations are loaded and displayd. We will improve the accuracy soon and add some more info to the festival popups. Let us know how you like it!
The 2nd Asian Hot Shots Berlin is going to take place in Berlin next week. We are looking forward to watch great films, meet people and enjoy discussions and performances.
Find out more about the Asian Hot Shots and this years "Green Chilies Award" COMPETITION features. They have also a blog with their recent news at greenchilies.wordpress.com.
For us, this will be the kick off to bring some asian shortfilms onto rathershort.com, so watch out the next weeks!
Today Micha updated the website with some small functions. Every list can now be put into a playlist, so you can skip back and forth trough the search result. We will extend this step by step to include more options (creating own playlists, send to friend, put on dvd etc.)
The other update contains social profile icons and links for user profiles. Let other people know about your MySpace, Facebook or Skype contacts!
We added a small feature that may become more of a major part of rathershort over the coming weeks and months. Discussions are now possible for festivals and also on user profiles. Depending on the use of this feature we will take it a step further soon to make discussions on several topics and crosspostings work. What do you think?
Rathershort.com wishes you all a happy 2009. We celebrated our shortfilm new years come together already on December 30 with a big international film party. Our shortfilm screening series "strange shorts berlin" met the winter camp of "couchsurfing.com": 200 people from all over the world came to watch 10 films and to party with the great great great "Les Titz Grand" in our favourite location, the "L.U.X.". I think this was the first time to have stage diving people at a strange shorts party, yeah!
We will continue to improve rathershort.com this year and hope to enjoy a growing network of international film friends. Rock on!
Update: Flickr Stream and Les Titz Grand Video:
We put a great piece of filmmaking history online. "The Mystery of the Leaping Fish" was made in 1916, directed by Christy Cabanne and John Emerson. Starring Douglas Fairbanks it tells the story of a scientific detective. Great fun to watch. By the way: we have to change our year listings in the film profile form because of the film - until now a film could be from max 1950, but not older. Who could know...
Germany ,United States ,United Kingdom ,Switzerland ,Austria ,Brazil ,Poland ,France ,Canada ,Italy ,Spain ,Netherlands ,Serbia ,Bulgaria ,Australia ,Portugal ,Belgium ,Greece ,Russia ,India ,Turkey ,Macedonia ,Egypt ,Japan ,Sweden ,Ireland ,Denmark ,Hungary ,Argentina ,Finland ,Norway ,Mexico ,Croatia ,Ukraine ,Israel ,Slovakia ,Bosnia and Herzegovina ,Latvia ,New Zealand ,Czech Republic ,Colombia ,South Korea ,Malaysia ,South Africa ,Lebanon ,Philippines ,Iran ,Rwanda ,China ,Hong Kong ,Romania ,Taiwan ,Luxembourg ,Pakistan ,Morocco ,Singapore ,Gabon ,Estonia ,Zambia ,Kenya ,Uruguay ,Syria ,Thailand ,Jordan ,Costa Rica ,Slovenia ,Burkina Faso ,Iceland ,Dominican Republic ,United Arab Emirates ,Greenland ,Nigeria ,Ghana ,Ivory Coast ,Azerbaijan ,Cuba ,Monaco ,Zimbabwe ,Georgia ,Kuwait ,Chile ,Bangladesh ,Sri Lanka ,Myanmar ,Liechtenstein on rathershort.com already (in number of visits order). Would be cool to have a film from each of these countries sometime. Suggest films from other countries!
Its now possible to let rathershort inform you about festival dates -
never miss your favourite film festivals again! On the festival
profile page you can turn this option on and of, more detailed options
can be found in your user preferences (for example, if you want a
dealine reminder, too..) Check it out and let us know what you think!
We will attend several festivals or live events during the next weeks. Starting with our own screening with Strange Shorts Vol. 10 in Berlin on Dec 30 (left image is from the show last week), we continue at the Asian Hot Shots Festival in Berlin (Jan 13-18). We hope to meet ots of filmfans and filmmakers - and to aquire some great asian short films, of course.
End of January we will travel to Clermont-Ferrand - it is the biggest annual short film event with more than 150.000 visitors. We are very much looking forward and plan to live blog our trip, of course. We will come back on Feb 5, on time for the start of the 59. Berlinale. It is one of the three big A festivals and with more than 450.000 visitors the biggest film audience event. We are looking forward to great films and lots of shortfilm-related side events. On of them is the next big screening of Future Shorts Berlin in the beauiful Admiralspalast on Feb 6!
If you attend on of these events we would be happy to meet you there! Send us a message and we go for films and drinks!
